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Each week, Great Lakes Echo features a photo story about a different Area of Concern designated by the U.S. or Canadian governments in the Great Lakes basin.
Guess where the area is located, based on the description of the site.
Lake Michigan and Lake Huron hit record low water levels this month. The receding water causes environmental and economic problems in the Great Lakes Basin. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has proposed a $21 million plan to dredge harbors. Patrick Doran, director of conservation for the Michigan Chapter of the Nature Conservancy and Jon Allan, director of the Office of the Great Lakes, discuss dredging and the future of the Great Lakes’ water levels.
When powerful waves force snowball-sized balls of ice against the shoreline, the ice buildup can reach great heights, as captured by photographer Tim Wenzel in Grand Haven, Michigan. The 6-foot waves on January 24 resulted in an almost volcanic Lake Michigan landscape. This photo was contributed to Earth Science Picture of the Day, a service of NASA’s Earth Science Division and the Universities Space Research Association.
We play a lot of defense on environmental problems. Maybe it’s time to get out ahead of one. Groundwater threats are underground in more ways than one. It’s time to really shine a spotight on them.
Mr. Great Lakes (Jeff Kart) reports from Bay City, Michigan’s Delta College Q-90.1 FM.
Kart discusses energy savings from solar shingles and concerns over growing waste in Michigan landfills. An update of the Great Lakes Bowl competition that he mentions is here. Text at Mr Great Lakes
Do you know the name for a zone in a body of water where temperature rapidly changes with depth? Students competing in the 2013 National Ocean Sciences Bowl are expected to know the answer. In fact, the question is categorized as “easy.” This year’s Great Lakes regional competition was held Saturday, Feb. 9 at the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and Environment.
Light may be one of the most overlooked environmental threats to the Great Lakes.
Now citizen scientists are building a global light pollution database
If fourth-graders in Canton, Mich. get their way, the tart cherry will become Michigan’s state fruit. Students from Gallimore Elementary School write persuasive essays to legislators and the governor every year, asking them to make it happen.
Its former funeral parlor location isn’t the only thing recycled at this brewery.
Treat yourself to a Belgian-inspired farmhouse beer and escargot or duck nachos. And be part of the trend of environmentally-conscious craft breweries.
Two diverse energy sources will help power a Great Lakes shipping revival, according to the Economist. The development of shale gas and oil requires the transportation of heavy extraction equipment, the publication says. And the giant turbines needed to harvest Midwest winds are a popular new cargo. An increase in energy supply that leads to a drop in costs could ramp up other manufacturing and perhaps additional shipping demand. The Economist also credits an expected shipping resurgence to currency fluctuations and removal of certain duties that spur the building of new vessels. The wet blanket?